Re: Need help determining cause of login problem

>> Ah. Well, this gives a subset (granted including 32) ... it's debatable
>> whether 97, 101, 103 are status codes or error codes - where are they?
>
> "tag=97" is not an error code or a status code. It is a message type
> tag. Look in ldap.h for an overview of tag bits and definitions of all
> the tags used in LDAP. They're defined in hex in ldap.h, which is why
> grepping for 97 won't show it to you. 97 = 0x61, which is a Bind
> response. You won't find "97" in the RFC either, instead you find the
> ASN.1:
>
>         BindResponse ::= [APPLICATION 1] SEQUENCE {
>              COMPONENTS OF LDAPResult,
>              serverSaslCreds    [7] OCTET STRING OPTIONAL }
>
> To really understand the correspondence you need to understand how ASN.1
> is encoded in BER. The "APPLICATION" corresponds to a specific bit
> (0x40). The value "1" is simply OR'd in, yielding 0x41. The entity is a
> structure, not a simple value, so it gets the Constructed bit, yielding
> 0x61.
>
> I've often thought that these tags should be logged in hex instead of
> decimal. Perhaps it's worth an ITS.